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UFOs flew over Phoenix in '97, Symington says
ARIZONA DAILY STAR ^ | 3/23/07 | Tom Beal

Posted on 03/23/2007 7:05:34 PM PDT by Pro-Bush

The Arizona Daily Star Published: 03.23.2007

UFOs flew over Phoenix in '97, Symington says By Tom Beal ARIZONA DAILY STAR

"The universe is a big place, and we're conceited to think we're alone." Fife Symington, former Ariz. governor Former Gov. Fife Symington says now that those strange lights that appeared over Phoenix a decade ago were from another world and that he had a close encounter with an alien craft on March 13, 1997.

"I'm a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people," Symington said Thursday. "I don't know why people would ridicule it."

Symington, who was in his second term as governor of Arizona during the Phoenix Lights incident, recently told a UFO investigator making a documentary that he had kept quiet about his personal close encounter because he didn't want to panic the populace. He repeated his story Thursday on CNN, saying the craft he saw was "enormous. It just felt other-worldly. In your gut, you could just tell it was other-worldly."

(Excerpt) Read more at azstarnet.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: callingartbell; pheonix; tinfoilalert; ufo
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To: bnelson44

If it is so common , why all the drama?


61 posted on 03/23/2007 8:06:15 PM PDT by Pro-Bush (hater)
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To: Quix

Another topic on this event. Pingworthy?


62 posted on 03/23/2007 8:06:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Sunday, March 11, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Pro-Bush
"I don't know why people would ridicule it."

Because space monsters don't visit earth.
63 posted on 03/23/2007 8:10:49 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: Pro-Bush

sure took him a long time....


64 posted on 03/23/2007 8:11:37 PM PDT by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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To: FReepaholic
Exactly how does one become a "trained observer"? I never saw Observer 101 in my college course catalog.

One way is to attend an aircraft identification class. It's kind of a important skill if you don't want to be targeting your own guys, or if you need to verify that "Yep, those are Mig 23's not Mig 21's."
With some practice one can actually tell the difference between a helicopter, a fixed wing aircraft, a weather balloon, and a bird.

65 posted on 03/23/2007 8:19:38 PM PDT by ASA Vet (www.rinorepublic.com)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So you're scared too? :P


66 posted on 03/23/2007 8:19:56 PM PDT by ilovew ("Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer." --Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Pro-Bush

Mass hysteria, a bunch of flares from Casa Grande.

Hell, I was on an airplane coming in for landing during the whole time frame it supposedly happened and there was no talk on the plane from anyone about any lights.

I'm amazed this story still has legs 10 years later.


67 posted on 03/23/2007 8:23:16 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (Never Let a Theocon Near a Textbook. Teach Evolution!)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Meteorological balloons....


68 posted on 03/23/2007 8:29:38 PM PDT by traumer
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To: Rokke

I drove back from Rocky Point one night they did a flare drop.

Pretty dramatic, we could see it for 50 miles, once we passed by the range, we knew what it was.

When the flares blinked out, that is when they went behind South Mountain.


69 posted on 03/23/2007 8:37:02 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (Never Let a Theocon Near a Textbook. Teach Evolution!)
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To: Pro-Bush
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70 posted on 03/23/2007 8:37:46 PM PDT by skimask (People who care what you do don't matter.......People who matter don't care what you do.)
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To: Pro-Bush

bump to save


71 posted on 03/23/2007 8:40:44 PM PDT by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: mysterio
space monsters don't visit earth.

eD WooD might disagree. ;-)


72 posted on 03/23/2007 8:44:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......)
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To: onyx

73 posted on 03/23/2007 8:46:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......)
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To: NormsRevenge

ROTFLOL!

How many people saw that and jumped?


74 posted on 03/23/2007 8:47:25 PM PDT by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: onyx

Oh man,, I got me a camera phone, I'm ready to shoot pics,, This is a pretty good Photo Chop or something , not sure what 8-?

This is a weird one too.

http://www.iwasabducted.com/ufogallery/crashedsaucer.htm


75 posted on 03/23/2007 8:49:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......)
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To: NormsRevenge


Totally weird. First time I've seen that.


76 posted on 03/23/2007 8:56:14 PM PDT by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: MARTIAL MONK

Met the investigator who's been working on the Phoenix lights for 10 years. Has interviewed 300+ viewers.

The Phoenix lights--the real McCoy--were NOT flares nor Apaches. There was evidently government sponsored flares that night--but as confusion.

The huge V shaped craft was humongous and nothing known to be in our arsenel--at least not remotely publically.


77 posted on 03/23/2007 8:57:11 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS ABLE; LOVE GOD WHOLLY, HIM & HIS KINGDOM 1ST)
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To: Rokke

There were flares that night.

The best information is that the flares were a deliberate effort to confuse the public and draw attention away from the authentic and huge UFO involved.

There's even evidence that the military folks knew ahead of time that the UFO was going to be doing it's thing over Phoenix and pulled the flare stunt ahead of time to confuse the public ahead of time.


78 posted on 03/23/2007 8:58:45 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS ABLE; LOVE GOD WHOLLY, HIM & HIS KINGDOM 1ST)
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To: Vinnie

Many abductees ARE told anti nuke stuff as well as environmental stuff. I consider both part of the vast game such forces are playing for mysterious purposes but in concert with the global government forces.

You clearly have also not investigated sufficiently to be exposed to the very solid evidence about the AUTHENTIC crop circles--not the minority of hoaxed ones.

Haughtiness is likely not fitting but certainly not before serious extensive study.


79 posted on 03/23/2007 9:00:52 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS ABLE; LOVE GOD WHOLLY, HIM & HIS KINGDOM 1ST)
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To: bnelson44

Not really. Because I haven't read any evidence that you've seriously and extensively researched the whole thing from the beginning of the evening until the last reported incident.

There's no real argument about the flares occurring at a given point in the evening over or near over training area(s) etc.


80 posted on 03/23/2007 9:03:35 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS ABLE; LOVE GOD WHOLLY, HIM & HIS KINGDOM 1ST)
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